My first patent

After more than 5 years, my first patent has been awarded. Not anything to do with AstroPlanner, and not likely to make me any money as I have signed away rights to my then employer.

US Patent Office Search: type in 7590068.
This patent is pretty esoteric and describes part of a protocol for mobile wireless mesh networking. The full protocol is described over three patents, two of which are still awaiting approval (or rejection). The other two are even more arcane. I’m amazed that this patent was accepted, and my hat goes off to the patent examiner for wading through the morass.

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@Richard
The technology we developed was pretty groundbreaking and eliminates a lot of the problems and expenses encountered with today’s mobile technology (e.g. mobile cell phones). Unfortunately it’s also just beyond the processor capabilities of common cellphones (unless you want 1 hour battery life). The technology (ODMA) was dropped from the 3G+ standards for being “too complex”. Can’t argue with that. Mebbe in ten years time…